[Music] hello and welcome back to the arkansas governor's quiz bowl association state championships and we're back here at the arkansas pbs studios for quiz bowl 2021 i'm dawn scott and this is our second match of the day we have many more to come right after this and right now over at the university of central arkansas our teams are taking their places and getting final instructions for the two-way state championship featuring the high schools from haas hall academy bentonville and lifeway christian let's turn now to our commentator bill davis and what can you tell us about this matchup bill well the thing that i can tell you is they're kind of unknown for me i'm sure they are known up in northwest arkansas and they're not very far apart geographically so these students may know each other better than we know them as far as i'm concerned however i will tell you this both of these schools even though i think lifeway christian this is their first time here and possibly hoss hall bentonville it might be their first time i think they've been here once before but they will be very well coached and the depth of knowledge will be surprised i mean you'll watch these students perform and i'm telling you they will have knowledge that you'll just say wow so i'm looking for a very good match all the students so smart and i know they're ready to get going it seems we're about ready to begin our match and we want to meet the teams okay for haas hall bentonville we have junior medan sankara sophomore ethan bailey sophomore holland glaze and junior paige kelly the captain is senior rayon sharif now their substitute players are all juniors jack rockwood pranav polavirapu harsha nana panini and raoul aravindakshan amy russell is their coach and for lifeway christian we have freshman emanuel peter sophomore asa fowler sophomore khalel langford and junior jackson miller the team captain is senior henry ross and their substitute players include senior nicholas cox and sophomore austin sutherland their coach is laura tidwell we'd like to thank our volunteer judges for this match they include melinda pitts nita wimberly barry burns vicki johnson carolyn tri and sandra elliott is our scorekeeper we met our competitors it is time to turn it now to our quiz master steve patterson and find out who will be our 2a quiz bowl champion steve well thank you dawn and congratulations to these two teams there are many many teams in the state who have competed in the 2a tournament both the region and then again at state and these are the two at the top of the mountain now uh hassall bentonville and lifeway christian household the four years in a row now that they have been up here and seeking their state championship and lifeway a new team for us but both from bentonville and so we're very glad that they've come down from northwest arkansas to join us for the 2a state championship it is good to see you all and i believe henry that you were the captain for lifeway christian yes sir and then over here we have rayon who is the captain for highsaw bentonville now if you boys would do one thing for me uh because we don't i cannot see or communicate with your coach so if there's a challenge or there's a substitution i'll be looking to the captains to tell me that all right all right well i think we're ready to start this 2a state championship and let's do it with this toss-up question for both schools identify the sinclair lewis novel set in the fictional town of zenith which focuses on the title character a real estate broker who enjoys all the modern conveniences of a prosperous middle class businessman yet he is dissatisfied with his life okay the correct answer there is babbitt babbitt on walt on what sculpted mountain in georgia can be seen the largest base relief in the world all right i believe that uh holland you buzzed in first mount now let me finish for the other team depicting the faces of robert e lee jefferson davis and stonewall jackson all right emmanuel stone mountain stone mountain is what we were looking for congratulations all right question number three these particles which are not only hard to see but pretty much impossible to measure are the basis of subatomic particles called hadrons all right we've already got a buzz in from madonch quarks quarks is correct good job this term is often mistakenly used to refer to people of wealth or status yet it is of middle class origins and meaning [Music] okay ethan bourgeoisie yes he was called the great lord the lord of heaven and earth name this chief god of the ancient babylonians okay uh paige no lifeway okay and that's emmanuel mo luck no it is marduk marduk what term in set theory refers to the set containing all elements that are common between two sets and only okay ethan intersection that's correct all right our next question is number seven this name was given to the group of gentlemen poets who supported king charles the first during the english civil wars during the mid-1600s name this group whose members included thomas carew uh rayon say it for me one more rayon cavaliers yes what long-time host of the show jeopardy for 37 all right ethan alex trebek yes this membrane-bound organelle of eukaryotic cells is responsible for transporting modifying and packaging proteins and lipids for delivery to targeted destinations all right rayon endoplasmic reticulum no name this structure which appears as a stack of flattened sacs all right uh henry henry going to say it again the golgi apparatus yes i heard the apparatus part but i didn't hear the golgi part all right he opposed clarence darrow as the prosecutor in the 1925 scopes trial and died shortly after it ended name this nebraska politician well known for his cross of gold all right rayon william jennings brian yes in experimental design this occurs when two variables are associated in such a way that their effects on a response variable cannot be distinguished from each other identify this type of variable which are not controlled for and which affect the results of the experiment uh manage independent no i finished the question life way all right kalel a dependent variable no it's confounding confounding all right question 12. in this tennyson poem the writer says that he quote hopes to see his pilot face to face unquote when the title action comes to pass name this poem which at the author's request appears at the conclusion of hall of his poetic collections okay emmanuel carter delight brigade no bentonville okay ascension no it is called crossing the bar crossing the bar all right this man was born into slavery at diamond missouri in 1864. his aptitude for drawing the natural world prompted a professor to suggest he studied biology at iowa state agricultural college all right rayon george washington ted copper yes you're absolutely right all right question 14. this civil war general was known for his unusual style of facial hair which included a bushy beard and a must uh manage or inside yes all right we're going to do math computation this is our first one in this game and we'll put 20 seconds on the clock and here's the question find the limit as x approaches 1 of the quantity x squared minus 1 divided by the quantity x minus one okay that's madonch q yes the title hero of this novel said during the russian revolution is a poetry writing young doctor whose mild interest in the coming revolution named this book for which under tremendous pressure from the kgb its author boris pasternak dr zavaco that's correct this gemstone was used as a talisman for protection both by warriors going into battle and to those who wanted to ward off pestilence and plague name this gem whose name means dark red and it is the january birthstone okay uh kalel ruby no um amethyst no it is a garnet a garnet all right which small african nation with its current capital at bujumbura all right uh rayon burundi you're right the ancient greeks refined the architectural column to a high degree name two of the three styles uh holland corinthian and ionic yes you know the third doric and doric that's right all three correct all right unfortunately no extra points though for knowing dork all right question 20 is going to be a math computation what geometric figure is described by the cartesian plane by the equation x squared minus 6x plus y squared um ethan a circle yes and that was the last question of round one all right ran and uh henry do we have any challenges so we've got some subs okay one second what about you henry do you want to sub while we're fixing the score uh jackson is being replaced with austin all right austin and colell is being taken over by nate and we have rahul coming in for a hallway i believe we're disinfecting and uh getting our new character our new players into place well we're glad to welcome these new characters to the game in this third round our apartment in the second round your team has a chance to win a uh four question bonus of five points each for those bonus questions and but first you have to answer the toss-up correctly okay so we'll put our hands on our buzzers and we'll get started with round two all right euripides sophocles and eugene o'neill all wrote plays with her name uh henry antigone no with her name in their titles name this popular mythical character all right emmanuel oh that was paige paige medea no the correct answer was electra electra all right here's another toss-up for both schools his framework for scientific investigation included instructions to quote never accept anything is true until all reasons for doubt can be ruled out unquote name this man in whose discourse on method this directive appeared all right austin descartes austin you're right and you've earned your team and austin uh is one of our new players right from lifeway christian yes yes okay all right we're going to give you the first bonus question which deals with art art all right henry going to get all my answers from you all right answer these questions about the national gallery of art in what city is the national gallery located see where do you see makes sense washington dc that's correct it uh it contains a matthew brady photo of which confederate general [Music] robert e lee yes its cornerstone was laid in 1836 by which u.s president answer please polk no the gallery is part of what larger organization the smithsonian yes and the one you didn't know uh was uh andrew jackson uh laid the cornerstone in 1836. all right so there's our first uh bonus done and let's see who can pick up this next one following 12 days of secret negotiations in september of 1978 this agreement was reached at its namesake location all right uh ethan helsinki accords no this agreement was let's see name this historic event attended by president jimmy carter for which egyptian president anwar sadat and israeli prime minister menachem begin shared the 1979 nobel peace prize okay that's emmanuel david more specific camp davis accords yes very nice all right do you have earned your team a bonus and this one is called famous first of american women identify the american women who were the first to do the following the first elected to the u.s senate connor connor what do you say answer please just call it sandra day o'connor no first elected governor of a state no first to serve on the us supreme court o'connor yeah that's senator o'connor sandra day o'connor yes and first to win the nobel peace prize answer please thank you marie curie no that one is jane adams uh first elected to the u.s senate is hattie carraway and first to be elected governor of the state was nellie taylor ross that's what you get for having an all-male team i suppose all right let's go to the next toss-up question for both schools are you ready it happens to be math computation calculate the first derivative of the natural logarithm of x squared all right uh made inch 2 over x say it again for me 2 over x yes all right good job and you've earned a bonus for your team that is called european capitals european capitals all right identify the capitals of the following european nations bulgaria sophia yes croatia sagrada yes hungary budapest yes and iceland reykjavik yes all four correct on that very nice we have one left and let's get a toss up to see which team will get it what character appears in the greatest number of shakespearean plays appearing in henry iv as well as the mary all right ethan all stuff falstaff is correct you've earned a bonus entitled chemistry chemistry identify the following chemistry terms electrode at which reduction occurs cathode cathode cathode yes evenly mixed are the same throughout homogeneous homogeneous homogeneous homogeneous yes solution of a metal in mercury answer please color no and suspension that does not separate colloid yes and the solution of a metal in mercury was an amalgam amalgam all right that's the end of round two do we have any um challenges on our bonus questions henry nothing rayon no all right then let me read the uh categories for our 60 say well used to be 60 second uh for our lightning round and the first one is called animal phyla animal phyla give the phylum for the following animals give either the former formal or scientific name for example you could say analita or annelid either one would be correct world literature when given two well-known works by nobel prize winning authors name the author and finally world currencies identify the basic monetary unit for the used by the following nations you have one minute to decide all right two rounds down and now we've hit the lightning round tell us what we can expect from this round bill as the students are making their decision well you know we said we didn't or i didn't know these teams i know them now and they seem to be very comfortable in this environment and they're performing very well there is a significant difference in the score however the 62nd round can solve that you can see them tighten up very quickly and the areas that they've picked the three that have been offered to them there's two of those areas that i'm thinking both of these teams could probably do very very well with those i've been watching the faces of the contestants and it is they're confident the knowledge is there so this game may flip very easily we may see it getting very very close they're doing such a great job bill thank you so much and it looks like the students are getting ready to begin we'll send things back to our quiz master steve well welcome back here to the studios at arkansas pbs and to the university of central arkansas and our time has run out for this teams to pick their category so henry i'm going to turn to you and ask you to give your category we've chosen world currencies world currencies for lifeway christensen all right knowing that uh rayon what have you picked for your category we're going to take world lit world lit for household bentonville all right we're going to uh sub in any way that we need to sub there you ready yes sir um we've met a substitution okay who's the sub jackson is in for nick jackson is in for nick all right very good jackson good to have you all right we uh remember we're not doing 60 seconds we're doing um five seconds per question rather than the 62nd round so i'll give you that much time make sure you have an answer please by the end of the five seconds all right this says to identify the basic monetary unit used by the following nations henry you ready yes sir switzerland crown crown no argentina [Music] hey yes denmark uh crown yes india rupee yes poland europe and what try europe euro no russia rupal yes australia dollar dollar yes south africa dollar no united kingdom pound yes japan yes all right good job i got that you got seven correct uh for a total of 70 points that which all have all right and these don't bounce back so let me give the answers to the switzerland you should have said frank okay and then on poland it's the zloty and finally south africa is the rand the rand all right now household you chose world literature so rayon jack what i wouldn't defer to jack okay hi jack good to have you jack talk to me for a second so that i can know you're working yeah hello oh very good all right uh jack i'm going to give you two well-known works by nobel prize winning authors you name the author patrick you all ready uh kim and the jungle book kipling uh yes the inheritors and lord of the flies golding yes dr zhivago and last summer pass uh being and nothingness and no exit jean-paul yes man and superman and major barbara pass a house divided and the good earth answer please ask the myth of sisyphus and the stranger no uh the tin drum and cat and mouse answer please churchill no waiting for godot and in game right no and end game answer please no and the wasteland and the love song of j alfred prufrock answer please lewis no that one is t.s eliot um dr zhivago was boris pasternack man in superman and major barbara was george bernard shaw the good earth and a house divided is pearl buck the myth of sisyphus and the stranger is albert camus and the tin drum and cat and mouse is gunter grass and waiting for godot and in game with samuel beckett all right so that's a total of one two three three correct on that all right okay so that's uh the end of that round do we have any challenges for that round no everything's good so that's the end of that round and our score is tightened up a great deal uh hussol bentonville has 215 and lifeway christian has 130 and there are still 200 points left to play in this game so it's pretty exciting we're going to make subs for hoss hall all right who who is this young man that's come into the game uh harsha aharsha it's good to have you i believe everyone else is the same but once is back and we're keeping jack oh and over here on lifeway christian is that jackson yes jackson good to have you all right well we want to make sure everything's right and that we can hear everybody um our teams are actually in another building uh because of our coveted guidelines here at arkansas pbs so sometimes it's kind of hard to know who's coming in and who isn't all right teams are you ready now to go on to this final round of play 2 100 points 10 points for 20 questions i wish you both well as you compete now for the title of 2a state champion all right here we go hands on our buzzers this founder of the persian empire conquered the medes and went on to conquer all right that's going to be emmanuel cyrus cyrus i need you to be cyrus i need to be need you to be more specific cyrus the great yes he's also cyrus ii as well all right math computation simplify this trigonometry expression in the simplest terms sine x plus co okay uh henry 2 sine x that's right this story is told to men aboard the steamship nelly and one character's death is announced by the simple words he is dead what joseph conrad novel does okay um ethan art of darkness yes uh the movement of ions are molecules across a cell membrane in the direction opposite of diffusion requires the assistance of a character carrier protein what is this process called all right that's going to be uh bentonville's madage active transport you're right england's law making body is known as parliament japan's is the deit and ours is known as congress all right medansh say it again for me persuadive uh no uh by what name is the lawmaking body of russia known and this is going to be lifeways asa the kremlin no it is known as the duma duma this title means a teacher whose wisdom is great as the ocean [Applause] uh all right um ethan garu uh no name this title given to the leader of an important spiritual line of tibetan buddhist monks called the yellow hat order all right that's going to be emmanuel from lifeway dalai lama that's correct all right after you find the derivative of a function and find its value at a point of interest excuse me the value may be positive negative or zero what does it tell you about the original function um all right henry from lifeway the rate of change i need you to be more specific the instantaneous rate of change no what does it tell you about the original function if the derivative has a negative value all right that's going to be uh madonch increasing decreasing is what we needed on that one all right good job in what h.g wells novel is a gentleman stranded on a pacific island all right that's going to be bentonville's ethan the island of dr moreau you're right one word refers to a positively charged particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons the dominant person uh bentonville's madoc an alpha particle yes this organization was established in 1865 to aid millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the south all right benville's rayon the friedman's bureau right math computation all right reduce the following algebraic expression to lowest terms the quantity x squared minus x minus 6 divided by the quant all right henry x plus two divided by x plus three yes all right identify the lewis carroll nonsense poem about a tidal dragon like creature known all right that's going to be lifeways henry jabberwocky yes what latin honor meaning with highest praise is typically awarded all right uh bentonville's ethan a triumph no is awarded to graduates at the top of their class all right that's uh austin that's correct in higher animals this is chiefly a defensive reaction against infection an invasion of the body by foreign substances name this process by which certain living cells ingest or engulf other cells or particles all right that's lifeways henry phagocytosis you're right henry question 45 president ronald reagan citing the threat posed to american nationals in this caribbean nation because of its marxist regime ordered the marines to invade and secure their safety in 1983. name this small caribbean country with it all right lifeways jackson grenada yes what type of numbers are expressed uh are comprised all right uh henry complex numbers you're right in frank bomb's the wonderful world of oz what color are dorothy's slippers okay that's lifeways jackson silver that's right the movie made them red didn't they all right what lobe of the human brain occupies the posterior portion of the of each cerebral hemisphere concerned with the interpretation of visual sensory impulses all right that's lifeways henry cerebellum no i saw bentonville and that's my dench no i needed occipital lobe occipital lobe this german royal family was one of the principal royal european houses from the 15th to the 20th centuries name this royal family which wore the imperial crown of the holy roman empire that's bentonville's ethan the habsburgs yes math computation for theta between zero and pi radians okay um bentonville's mid-inch pi over two that's correct and that was the last question of the game all right do we have any challenges that the teams would like to make all right they're going to make a challenge and so we'll allow them to fill out their paperwork and then come back to you [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] welcome back to our state championship for 2a for 2021. we had a challenge from hustle bentonville about the timing of the question and the interruption that occurred during a math question that was being read and so the judges have decided to throw that question out and put in a different math question and so we're going to take 10 points from lifeway christian they might get them back here in just a moment but right now that's what we're doing and let me read this math computation question for both schools so that we can end this game all right are you all all ready all right here's the question add one to the base two number one zero one one one and express the answer in base two all right that's going to be henry one zero one i i can't start over can i no one zero one one one no all right ethan one one zero zero zero that's correct all right very good so i believe that uh that challenge is over and i believe that that game is over and here at the end of the 2a state championship we have 305 to 220. lifeway christian will be our 2a state runner-up and hassa bentonville you've achieved that goal of being the state champion in 2a congratulations now we're going to throw everything back to dawn all right what a match congratulations to hoss hall bentonville and also a big shout out there to lifeway christian that match was intense boy did lifeway christian come back there for a minute they did at the end of the game they were answering nearly two out of every three questions sometimes three out of four both of these teams represented their schools very very well i will not be surprised at all if they don't come back had a little drama at the end but both these teams are very solid very well coached and i'd look for them to come back to aetn maybe next year well congratulations to all of the students who participated let's go back to the university of central arkansas for the awards presentation there we're going to send things over to carolyn okay thanks don and here are the all tournament players from 2a which includes all the games played at the state level uh here we go we have nathan carpenter from cedar ridge uh riley house from bigelow caleb mallett from saint joseph in conway madanch sankari from household bentonville ethan bailey from house hall bentonville carl mcbee from flippin ethan stanton of magazine katie bowman from conway christian jacob carter of quitman henry ross of lifeway christian uh ashley mallett of saint joseph conway ray and sharif of haas hall bentonville eli teeter from buffalo island stinson batisto parker's chapel evan johnson of quitman lane harper from hazen carter jones of white county central seth cook of tuckerman drew cochran from conway christian kade howard from flippin flippin excuse me anthony mccallups of flippin uh sorry white county central uh wyatt treadway of cedar ridge parker carroll east poinsett county and paige fifthand of east point county and we have actually this time for the first of any so far a high point player that is a player on one of the teams that did not make it to the finals but whose player in their overall average exceeded that of the mvp and that would be abby wagster of tuckerman our mvp today right here is emmanuel peter of lifeway christian congratulations come on up [Music] and for you emanuel we have got a trophy and a medal and you will also be getting a check for that performance today for 250 dollars congratulations all right now we want to present the trophies for today's tournament for the 2a second place team lifeway christian coach would you care to come up and get their trophy [Music] [Applause] congratulations okay very good and we appreciate you now let's get the trophy to go to our first place team which is haas hall bentonville come on up there good job today you all did a great job a well played game and congratulations to both of you now we will turn it back to dawn congratulations again to hoss hall bentonville there's a lot more action to come with arkansas governor's quiz bowl association state championships so stay right here with us up next is the 7a state championship featuring the high schools from fort smith south side and bryant we'll see you soon you